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Pax Romana Art
Scorpio, the Roman Bolt-Thrower
The Roman Army · 1st century BC
1.012 kr1.352 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
Details & specs
Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 12x18″ · 16x24″ · 24x36″
- Orientation: Vertical
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Military plate
- Era: Late Republic
Shipping & returns
Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
Damaged, defective or the wrong item? Email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we send a free replacement or a full refund. Because every piece is made to order, change-of-mind returns are not accepted.
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Scorpio, the Roman Bolt-ThrowerFramed print · Black · 16x24″
1.012 kr
1.352 krSave 340 kr
The Roman Army · 1st century BC
Built Around a Single Bolt
The scorpio was a light torsion catapult that shot heavy bolts, the field artillery of the Roman army. Its name means scorpion, after its sting. Julius Caesar tells how, at the siege of Avaricum in 52 BC, a scorpio struck down one Gallic defender after another as each stepped into the same place before the town gate. Later legions carried such machines as a matter of course.
The best technical description comes from Vitruvius, a Roman architect and military engineer who wrote On Architecture in the late first century BC and dedicated it to Augustus. In Book X he explains how to build machines that shoot bolts. The heart of each was the capitulum, a frame holding two vertical bundles of twisted sinew rope. An arm was set into each bundle. When the string was drawn back with a winch, the sucula, the bundles twisted further, and on release they snapped the arms forward. The bolt lay in a trough, the canalis. Vitruvius gives every measurement as a fraction or multiple of the bolt's length, so that a builder could make a machine of any size.
The piece
The plate is drawn in fine white line on deep blue, like an engineer's sheet. At the top the spring frame stands square and symmetrical, the coiled springs shown in zigzag hatching. Below, the side view stretches across the page on its stand, from the arrowhead at left to the spoked winch at right.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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